Using eclipse to develop Java EE applications

Eclipse is a very good integrated development environment, and the open source project, supported by IBM, has evolved over time to become familiar to the vast majority of Java developers. The advent of Eclipse provides Java developers with the opportunity to use a powerful Java IDE for free, expanding to support a wide variety of applications by integrating a large number of plugin,eclipse features.

Lomboz is a free eclipse plugin that integrates many Java application servers, EE components, and Web application development into eclipse to help Java developers build, test, and deploy EE applications using Eclipse.

JBoss is an open source, powerful Java application Server, and is currently the most popular Java Developers Java application Server, by the Java World editors as the 2002 best Application Server. More than 1.5 million downloads have been downloaded so far in 2003.

First, download, install and configure

1. Download and installation of Eclipse

First you need to install the JDK, you can go to the Sun's website to download the latest version and install.

Then go to www.eclipse.org to download the latest version of Eclipse, currently the latest version is 2.1. After the download to the directory you want to extract, such as D:\Eclipse, run directly eclipse.exe, the first time you run will automatically find the JDK and complete the appropriate configuration, and then entered the Eclipse's main interface. The basic usage of Eclipse is described in detail in the Developerworks,eclipse Web site and in the random documentation of Eclipse, which is not described in detail here.

2. JBoss Download, installation

The latest version of JBoss is 3.2.1, but I think there are some problems with this version, when starting the server there will be some jar bags can not find, resulting in warn and error occurred. So I recommend downloading 3.0.7, or I can download the JBoss 3.0.7 version that integrates Tomcat 4.1.24.

After the download decompression, we assume that Jboss_home is the home directory of JBoss, the implementation of Jboss_home/bin/run.bat, it started the JBoss server. Will normally start in 1 minutes or so.

3. Download, installation, and configuration of Lomboz

The current version of Lomboz is 2.1, and we assume that Eclipse's home directory is eclipse_home, and then unzip it to the Eclipse_home/plugins folder after downloading, So there is a Com.objectlearn.jdt.j2ee folder under this folder.

Then, when you start Eclipse, the Customize Perspective dialog box appears automatically, and if not, you can also display the dialog box "Window->customize Perspective", as shown in the following illustration: